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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:46, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >            People know what a web browser is.
>
> By far, most of them do not.
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEt0N3xu0Do>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH5ZIXItkS8>
>
> >                                               The menu doesn't control
> > the page, but rather the application that renders a page. For
> > OpenOffice.org, the menu wouldn't say "editing my resume" or "designing
> > a website" or "putting numbers of some sort into a table", would it?
> > No, because that's things that people use OOo for and they know that
> > it's all the same program; same with Firefox.
>
> If you have a document open in Microsoft Word and a spreadsheet open in
> Microsoft Excel, and you choose "Quit" from Excel's application menu on
> the Mac (or "Exit" from its Office button on Windows), the spreadsheet
> will close. But if you had the same document open in OpenOffice.org
> Writer, and the same spreadsheet open in OpenOffice.org Calc, and you
> chose "Quit" from OpenOffice.org's app menu in Gnome Shell, the
> spreadsheet would close, and -- surprise! -- the document would close too.
>

Thank you!
That's why we want to move the desktop to human language.
Words like "application", "service" or "process" have nothing to do with
writing a letter, watching a movie or listening to music.